Poetry
June 24-28, 2024
Open to All
Tiered Tuition
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About the Offering
LIVE via Zoom: 2pm-4pm (Eastern Time)
The ekphrastic poem—one provoked by or in response to a work of art—derives energy from the friction and affinities between two mediums and modes of experience: the visual and the verbal. As such, it can act as a vibrant site of experimentation and play, liminality and subversion. What transpires in the movement between one medium and another? What gets animated in the tensions between the spatial dimension of a visual artwork and the temporal dimension of a poem? How can ekphrastic writing proceed as a mode of inquiry, a manner of investigating perception and process?
Together, we’ll read through an invigorating range of poems that emerge from varied approaches to ekphrasis, partake in generative writing on works of art, and discuss one another’s ekphrastic poems.
Materials Needed
No specific materials needed for this offering.
About the Instructor/Moderator
Jenny Xie
is the author of Eye Level and The Rupture Tense, both finalists for the National Book Award in Poetry. She has been supported by fellowships and grants from Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Kundiman, New York Foundation for the Arts, the Vilcek Foundation, and the Jerome Foundation. Xie is an assistant professor of Written Arts at Bard College, and lives in New York City.
Accessibility Information
Their work is regularly exhibited internationally and is in the permanent collections of over 60 museums. Over the past fifteen years, they have built a sustainable career as a visual artist and have extensive experience working with museums, galleries, universities and nonprofit organizations, publishers, and press outlets. In addition to their own creative work, they are passionate about sharing the professional knowledge they’ve acquired throughout their career with other artists.
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